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Alt.religion.scientology Week in Review summarizes the most significant
postings from the Usenet group Alt.religion.scientology for the preceding
week for the benefit of those who can't follow the group as closely as
they'd like. Out of thousands of postings, I attempt to include news of
significant events, new affidavits, court rulings, new contributors,
whatever. I hope you find it useful. Like many readers of a.r.s, I have a
kill file. So please take into consideration that I may not have seen some
of the most significant postings.
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http://users.aimnet.com/~jdiver/scieno.htm
http://www.thur.de/religio/publik/arsfaq.html

Arnie Lerma posted a March 19th order by Judge Leonie Brinkema, returning
Arnie's computer equipment so that he can file his taxes.

"The Court, after reviewing the filings by the parties and hearing the
statements of counsel, hereby ORDERS:

"The Courts November 27, 1995 Order directing the return of Mr. Lerma's
computer materials remains in effect. Mr. Lerma's computer materials shall
be returned by Kaman Sciences Corporation to Mr. Lerma's Counsel so that
Mr. Lerma can use documents other than the copyrighted works at issue in
this case for completion of his taxes and other business unrelated to this
action. Until further order of the the Court, the materials shall remain
in the custody of Mr. Lerma's counsel. Mr. Lerma shall not use any of the
alleged copyright infringements in this case, including specifically
Exhibits 1 through 33."

Grady Ward had a preliminary hearing this week. Grady is accused by the
cult of being the author of the Scamizdat series of anonymous posts
containing confidential processing levels. Shelley Thomson reported the
proceedings in her Biased Journalism newsletter.

"Thomas R. Hogan undertook to speak for the plaintiffs. Grady Ward
presented himself pro se. He wore a tweed sport jacket and a red tie, the
type of thing a country businessman might wear; this contrasted sharply
with the smoothly tailored RTC lawyers, who seemed to have bought their
gear at Spare No Expense, Inc.

"Judge Whyte asks if he has any connection to SCAMIZDAT. Grady Ward firmly
denies that he is behind SCAMIZDAT. 'Do you know who is doing it?' the
Judge asks. 'No, I do not,' Grady replies.

"A discussion of the TRO ensues. Grady does not mind being enjoined from
doing things he had not planned to do anyway, but he is unsure of the
scope of the proposed order.

"Judge Whyte states that he wants to enter a Preliminary Injunction,
enjoining Grady Ward and anyone acting in concert with him from the
publication of the Exhibit C documents listed in the Order on the net. The
RTC (Whyte says) can take Ward's deposition at a mutually convenient time
within ten days, for a time not to exceed, say, four hours. 'But if you
want counsel before I make it a final decree, or want to file something
further, let me know.' 'That sounds eminently fair, Your Honor,' Ward
replies.

"Grady continues. Church attorney Helena K. Kobrin has been threatening
people on the net. She has been using your order [he tells the Judge] to
intimidate. 'That's typical,' Judge Whyte says calmly.

"She should not be able to intimidate other people, Grady states. 'The
Order doesn't apply to persons not acting in concert with Grady Ward,' the
Judge says firmly. Grady won't give it up. 'Fear of litigation has
infringed free speech on the net.' Judge Whyte: 'I will see that is taken
care of.'

"Hogan has a request. With reference to the proposed order on discovery,
six hours is not enough. He wants Grady to submit records and documents in
advance. Grady Ward responds that this 'may be the prelude to a very
abusive discovery process. I deny possessing any SCAMIZDAT material.'

"The judge limits the deposition to one day. He informs Ward that the
Plaintiffs can ask him to bring specified records to the deposition. Then
if [during the deposition] you feel it is abusive, say 'I think this is
abusive' and stop it. Call the magistrate, whose number I will give you
[and ask for a protective order]."

Grady subsequently received a list of things to be produced at his
deposition. It appears more like a list of things to be acquired in a raid
than a list for disclosure. Grady's response to the list was not posted,
but is available on the web. Selected items are listed below.

"DOCUMENTS AND THINGS TO BE PRODUCED

"1. All copies of the OT III documents which were posted to the Internet
in or about February, 1995 under the header attached hereto as Exhibit 1.
NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED

"2. All copies of NED for OTs Series 1 which was posted to the Internet in
or about February, 1995 under the header attached hereto as Exhibit 2.
NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED

"3. Any and all documents relating to posting, reproduction, distribution,
or display of works of L. Ron Hubbard, including but not limited to, the
Works.
NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED

"9. Any and all documents relating to postings made by you, whether under
you own name, a pseudonym, or anonymously to the USENET newsgroups
entitled alt.religion.scientology, alt.2600, alt.activism,
comp.org.eff.talk, or any other newsgroup relating to the Advanced
Technology.
NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED

"11. Any and all documents relating to postings of Advanced Technology
materials, including, but not limited to, actual postings or discussions
of such postings, whether actual or planned, made through the following
servers:
a. freezone.remailer
b. nately.ucsd.edu
c. penet.fi
d. replay.comm
e. utopia.backtic.nl
NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED

"17. Any and all documents relating to the licensing or customer agreement
between you and any Internet access provider.
OBJECT BECAUSE OF NON-RELEVANCE; any event it would be identical to the
customer agreement currently in force as on file with the provider.

"27. All documents relating to your attempts to discredit Helena Kobrin as
an attorney acting on behalf of Religious Technology Center in protecting
its intellectual property rights.
OBJECT BECAUSE OF INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF QUESTION and, without prejudice
to the first objection, OBJECT BECAUSE OF NON-RELEVANCE

"28. All documents relating to telephone records from July 1, 1994 to the
present.
OBJECT BECAUSE OF NON-RELEVANCE

"29. All documents concerning the use by you, or anyone acting directly or
indirectly under your control or in concert or participation with you, of
storage facilities away from your primary residence.
NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED

"32. All documents relating to software programs which you use regarding
any of the following: anonymous remailers, USENET news, Internet access,
scanning of documents onto computer media, uploading or downloading of
documents onto computer media, encryption of computer transmission or
files, lexicons, Scientology materials, or copyrights.
COMPUTER MANUALS, BOTH ELECTRONIC AND PAPER WILL BE PROVIDED ON FRIDAY,
APRIL 5, 1996 FOR INSPECTION, AS PER APRIL 3, 1996 HOGAN CONVERSATION

"34. All shredders.
TO BE PROVIDED FOR INSPECTION; WILL BE PROVIDED ON FRIDAY APRIL 5, 1996
FOR INSPECTION, AS PER APRIL 3, 1996 HOGAN CONVERSATION

"35. All scanning equipment.
TO BE PROVIDED FOR INSPECTION; WILL BE PROVIDED ON FRIDAY APRIL 5, 1996
FOR INSPECTION, AS PER APRIL 3, 1996 HOGAN CONVERSATION

"36. All locks which you place on any cabinet or other container in which
you have placed Scientology materials.
NONE SATISFY REQUEST

"37. All documents relating to procedures for shredding documents, either
hard copy or in electronic form.
EXCEPT FOR USER'S MANUAL, NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED"

H. Keith Henson wrote a letter to Judge Ronald White expressing concern
that the Temporary Restraining Order he issued against Grady Ward could be
applied to people across the Internet.

"In the company of perhaps 100,000 other people (the readers of the Usenet
newsgroups alt.religion.scientology, alt.activism, alt.2600,
comp.org.eff.talk, and misc.legal), I read the TRO against Mr. Grady Ward
and 'all persons in active concert.' Was it your intent for this order to
apply to random persons on the Internet such as myself? If so, I believe
the TRO is a violation of my First Amendment rights to discuss the
criminal activities of the cult of Scientology.

"Upon reading the TRO you approved, I sorted the list of documents
attached and ran a text search on the news spool on one of my accounts to
see if any of these documents were there. Assuming this is real, I can see
why the 'Church' of Scientology is trying to suppress this material. If
carried out, the instructions in this particular bulletin amount to
*criminal* acts, to wit, the practice of medicine without a license. I
reproduce this widely available document in its entirety for your
edification."

Keith then quoted the entire NED for OTs Series 34 document.

"Please note that point 4 states that this process of 'blowing BTs' cures
illness. The phrases 'cease to read' and 'no longer read' refer to
'auditing' with an E-meter. The 'Church' of Scientology is under Court
orders stemming from FDA actions in the early 1970s against making such
claims involving the use of E-meters. This bulletin (assuming it is real)
is written evidence of the level of contempt the 'Church' of Scientology
has for the Courts.

"Forbidding discussion of this particular document, including quoting it
entirely, is clearly against the public interest as well as a violation of
my First Amendment rights. Unless, of course, copyright law can be used to
prevent disclosure of instructions for criminal activity."

The post of this article to a.r.s has been canceled twice by the cult.
Keith wrote a second letter to Judge White this week, expressing concern
that the request for email in the cult's deposition list to Grady Ward may
be illegal.

"I have written a *great deal* about Scientology and the 'AT' materials in
the past 14 months. Most of it has been public postings, but some has been
private email--some of that to Scientologists. At times I have quoted
parts of this in very private mail to others critics such as Mr. Ward. It
would do a great deal of damage to my reputation if this material were to
fall into the hands of the RTC, and cause pain to or possibly even
endanger some of my Scientologist correspondents-- since they are largely
forbidden to communicate with outsiders.

"Now, having settled an Electronic Communications Privacy Act suit with
Riverside County for a substantial sum of money, and having followed the
Steve Jackson vs The United States Secret Service case, I know that lawful
access to stored electronic communications requires a court order or
warrant. (See section 2700-2707 of Title 18 USC.) As a matter of fact,
there are 100-200 individuals who may have cause to sue RTC and its law
firms under section 2707 due to the unauthorized access to electronic
mail.

"I believe that RTC should be required to show cause as to why they should
have an order to violate the privacy of the stored electronic
communications of each of these people. Since these people are publicly
identified, it would seem appropriate for them to be permitted to argue in
your court, perhaps by mail, against the exposure of their private stored
electronic communications (if any)."

Keith has apparently made himself the target of a separate suit for
posting the NOTS materials.

"Apparently the Criminal Cult, in trying to hide their crimes, have now
sued H. Keith Henson. Keith was asking for NOTS that related to criminal
activity of the Cult, particularly the NOTS that deal with curing physical
ailments through auditing, something that the FDA jumped them for back in
the '70's, I believe."

Karin Spaink, recent victor in court in The Netherlands when the legality
of her Fishman Affidavit web page was upheld, also posted a letter to
Judge White. She is protesting the inclusion of her email in the Grady
Ward deposition list.

"I am a Dutch citizen, a writer, and I am currently being sued by
Scientology (in their personae of RTC, CST and New Era Publications) for
alleged copyright infringements. I fail to understand why my name is on
the list plaintiffs have presented Mr. Ward with. Mr. Ward and I do not
know each other, and to the best of my knowledge the first e-mail I ever
addressed to him was sent on March 24, 1996, upon hearing that your court
had issued a TRO against him at Scientology's request. I mailed him some
advice and later offered him the use of my personal archive of
alt.religion.scientology postings, should he need it.

"Under Dutch Law, Grady Ward would not even be allowed to produce any
e-mail communications we might have had. The Privacy law in this country
only allows him to do so when a court order has been issued. It is my
understanding that US law has an Electronic Communications Privacy Act
(section 2700-2707 of Title 18 USC), which also states that lawful access
to stored electronic communications requires a warrant or a court order.

"I cannot understand why Scientology would expect to find any
communication between Mr. Ward and me - if it had existed - to be of any
relevance to the pertaining case. I can only assume that Scientology
either considers all critics to be linked in some kind of global
conspiracy, and thus expects us to be scheming deviously, or - worse -
that Scientology is hoping to use the mere fact that my name will be
mentioned in your court as a means to thwart legal proceedings here and
put me at a disadvantage in their upcoming appeal - for instance, by
suggesting that _I_ am a part of Scamizdat or was at some time suspected
to be connected with it, or with any other copyright infringing person or
group. I must therefore protest to being in any way included in this
'Notice of Deposition'."

Steve Fishman posted a series of articles this week, describing his
experiences in the cult, and after leaving. On his time spent in a
psychiatric hospital:

"From February 13, 1989 to March 20, 1989, I was institutionalized on
suicide watch at the Hollywood Pavilion Psychiatric Facility, in
Hollywood, Florida. Why did I get put in the Hollywood Pavilion? It was a
Court Order by Magistrate Lurana Snow.

"Previously, I had been ordered to do an 'End of Cycle' or suicide by
Carol Martiniano of the Office of Special Affairs in September, 1988, and
the first I heard about my EOC order was from two terminals at the Miami
Org: Flag Banking Officer Leona Littler Grimm and Ethics Officer Frank
Thompson.

"Leona told me: 'Take a short term loss on your current lifetime in order
to get a long term gain on your immortality as a thetan.' Frank Thompson
repeated it.

"In January,1989, Jan Logan, the Senior Sea Org Recruiter at the Flag Land
Base promised me that if I carried out the EOC order, I would be
GUARANTEED a set of Class XII Sea Org parents in my next lifetime, who
would boost me up the bridge to Class XII 'like a rocket.'"

On the "LRH Withholds" documents he stole from church critics:

"Unfortunately I do not know the contents of the overt and withhold
write-ups of Hubbard, other than what I was told by Fred Hare, who
organized the rescue and retrieve mission, which it was euphemistically
called. Hubbard wrote up these O/W's before he published Dianetics. They
were from 1946-1948. I don't know the contents, because they were in a
brown manila envelope full of dust from an air-conditioning duct. I had
ten minutes when I was sitting in the car with the envelope and I could
have opened it, and I was indeed curious, but I was too afraid that the
others would catch me looking at it and I would be punished.'

"The envelope was thick, containing (my best estimate) of between 30-35
pages of documents. I felt the thickness of the envelope. I did NOT open
it or read the contents. I was too intimidated by the idea of being caught
doing so by a senior officer.

"Attached to the K/R written up by my senior (whose name I don't want to
mention for legal reasons) were the two pages of O/W write ups dealing
with McClellan. At the time I knew nothing about the OT Levels and so the
data about 'germs' seemed relatively unimportant, harmless and inoccuous,
other than the fact that I recall being extremely impressed by LRH's
ability to handle the schizophrenic man at the time, and I never forgot
the story or Oren McClellan's name.

"I always wondered what the other 28-33 pages contained, since I firmly
believe that I was shown the LEAST SENSITIVE of the Hubbard writings,
which Fred Hare had later explained orally to me in order to end off on
the incident and put it to rest.

"It seemed that the other pages could have contained materials that my
seniors in the G.O. did not want me to see or know about, and that
possibly they had to do with Hubbard's medical claim that he was blind
from World War II or his psychological claim that he had been suffering
from mental illness. It would be interesting to research this and to find
out how long Hubbard collected these disability benefits, and what
percentage he was considered disabled by the U. S. Government."

On one time anti-cult attorney Michael Flynn:

"When attorney Michael Flynn settled with Scientology, he received five
million dollars. His clients received very little. The one who got the
most was Gerry Armstrong, who was awarded $ 800,000 in the settlement.

"Most of his other clients, including reporter Paulette Cooper, received
negligible amounts, some like Lavenda Van Schaick, received absolutely
nothing. On top of everything else, Michael Flynn agreed (in the
settlement agreement) not to take any new Scientology cases.

"At the very least, the disparity between what the ATTORNEY got out of it
and what the CLIENTS received was unethical. At best, it is grounds for
bringing a disbarment complaint to the Massachusetts Bar Association
against Flynn. Any former client of Flynn's, including Lavenda, would have
a right to make such a bar complaint before the Massachusetts Bar
Association."

On operations against Psychiatrists:

"Quite often we had new raw meat wogs who were being treated by
psychiatrists or psychologists. They were too new in Scientology to demand
that they disconnect from the psych, or there was family pressure to keep
the preclear in the psych's care.

"First thing I had to do was get a checklist from the Body Registrar or
the Ethics Officer containing the following points:
1. Name and address of the psych
2. Name of the insurance company paying mental health benefits
3. Policy limits, deductibles, psych diagnosis and procedure codes.
4. Days of the week and frequency of psych visits by the preclear.

"Next I obtained an insurance claim form from the DG (Deputy Guardian) of
the Miami Org where I was on post, and filled out the form, for two extra
psych visits per week. We had people in addresso who were able to sign the
forms 'like a psych', (whatever that meant). In other words, they forged
the psych's name. However, the money was ALWAYS made payable to the psych.

"The psych received the check in 3-4 weeks, and they ALWAYS cashed the
check. Two weeks later, a G.O. Field Agent paid a personal visit to the
psych at his office or home and warned him that if he did not release our
preclear from treatment, he would be turned in to the Florida Insurance
Commissioner for fraud.

"It ALWAYS worked. The psych 'released' his patient from his care, and he
was permanently off our preclear's lines."

On operations in Spain:

"I was on a COVERT OPERATION for OSA, having brought forged and backdated
corporate resolutions for the TAIM Charity to Narconon Iberia. [T]he
original corporate resolutions had been all signed by Narconon Iberia
staff members, including the Director of Special Affairs for Narconon
Iberia, Enrique Ayasa.

"TAIM was supposed to be an Independent Study which was supposed to
IMPARTIALLY evaluate the success or failure of Narconon in Spain. When the
Spanish government was questioning TAIM's autonomy, there was a mad rush
to take the names of the Narconon staffers from the TAIM charter, and that
is why they sent me to Spain, to deliver the original documents which had
been phonied up and backdated.

"This fraud upon the Spanish government was one of the many reasons why
Cult of Scientology President Heber Jentzsch was indicted in Spain and
languished for a while in a Spanish prison, where he remains out on bond
to this very day."

Paulette Cooper corrected Steve Fishman on one of the points mentioned
above.

"No Steve, your information was wrong that I was one of Flynn's clients in
the final settlement.

"Long before there was that global settlement, I realized that Flynn was
the only one who was going to get any real money out of his cases, and
that his clients would all end up with some pittance after he took most of
it and divided the rest up among all those people. So happily I dumped him
and jumped ship years earlier, hiring my own individual lawyer to effect a
settlement."

An anonymous person this week posted the partially recovered contents of a
floppy disk he found in Tampa.

"important symbolic step towards Clearing the Planet, the Church of
Scientology announced today it has obtained regulatory approval for a new
satellite television network. Transmission is expected to begin in the the
third quarter of 1996.

"The new satellite service, tentatively called KSWN (for 'Keeping
Scientology Working Network'), will broadcast Scientology and Dianetics
news and technical programming 24 hours a day on two transponder channels.

"The second, scrambled, channel will consist of Scientology and Dianetics
course material and training films, many of them produced by the late
L.Ron Hubbard himself. Programming on the scrambled channel will be
available to subscribers on a pay-per-view basis.

According to an April 2nd Dow Jones report this week, Time Warner has sued
TIG Insurance over legal fees in the Time Magazine/Scientology defamation
suit.

"The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New
York, concerns more than $7.3 million in legal fees and other costs Time
Warner says its Time Inc. unit has incurred in contesting two suits
against Time magazine.

"The suits arose over a 1991 cover story critical of the Church of
Scientology. Time Warner says TIG, the company's liability insurer, should
reimburse it for the legal fees minus a $3-million deductible, but that it
refuses to do so.

"According to the suit, Time Warner says TIG claims that the two
Scientology suits may mean there should be two deductibles, and that the
deductible should be $5 million, not $3 million. Time Warner says the
$5-million figure is outdated and has been superseded.

"The suits over the Scientology article, one of which was brought by the
church itself, are still pending, and Time Warner argues that it will
continue to incur legal expenses that should also be reimbursed by TIG."